Spring Street, Melbourne, c.1900

Melbourne

Spring Street

Acquisition number: 1731

Catalogue number: emvf0992

File name: VF0992

File location: Vertical file

Postcard. Colour print. The reverse is undivided. Division creating space for a message and another for the address first appeared in 1905.

Looking south from the roof of Parliament House. The Old Treasury is the most prominent building. Cable-trams trundle down Macarthur and Collins Streets. In the foreground is Carpentaria Place with the cabman’s shelter as its main feature. This was designed by Nahum Barnet and built in 1898. Hansom cabs wait for customers nearby. Carpentaria Place has gone and the cabman’s shelter has been removed to Yarra Park, near Brunton Avenue. It is on the Heritage Victoria Register.

Item type: Postcard

Building name: Cabman's shelter

Old Treasury

Subject address: Spring Street, Melbourne

Item size: 8.9x14 cm

Date of publication or creation: 1900c

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Purchased eBay

Year acquired: 2023

Spring Street, Melbourne, c.1900

Melbourne

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